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Post by Bonobo on Dec 13, 2018 21:49:36 GMT 1
Another student of mine is so dyslexic he can`t even repeat properly what I say: during today`s lesson, instead of nickname, he said nickman, then nickmain. He also read curly as cool, grey as girl. Even when I write phonetic transcription (POLONISED) for him or ask him to write it himself, he isn`t able to read it properly. Poor boy. Other dyslexic students read: Berlin as Brazil and later brain. Picnic as panicA brilliant dialogue with the hero of this thread yesterday: he read "invited us to the party" as US. I said he made a mistake and explained that us means nas in Polish. He asked: Aaah, NASA? I come across such twists quite often. |
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Post by Bonobo on Nov 5, 2020 14:26:33 GMT 1
Yesterday I got a triumphant message: she is dyslexic! from a parent who had just received an opinion from a logopedic clinic. I should be rejoicing but it would be improper over such a sad issue. Still, I was the only teacher who urged the parents to go and have an examination - and she is my private tutoring student, now in the first year of high school, 16 years old. Incredible. None of his English or Polish teachers had noticed anything while I have taught her for 8 years now and indeed, sometimes I was seriously depressed with her ineptness.
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Post by jeanne on Nov 5, 2020 21:39:33 GMT 1
Yesterday I got a triumphant message: she is dyslexic! from a parent who had just received an opinion from a logopedic clinic. I should be rejoicing but it would be improper over such a sad issue. Still, I was the only teacher who urged the parents to go and have an examination - and she is my private tutoring student, now in the first year of high school, 16 years old. Incredible. None of his English or Polish teachers had noticed anything while I have taught her for 8 years now and indeed, sometimes I was seriously depressed with her ineptness. Good job, Bonobo...too bad they didn't listen to you sooner. I hope she can get some help. Do the schools have trained people on staff who work with students with disorders like dyslexia, or do they have to go outside of the school for help? In the U.S. schools are required to provide an appropriate curriculum for them, or the school system has to pay for outside help, plus the cost of transportation there and back as necessary....all of which is very expensive and depletes special education funds within the school system! |
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Post by Bonobo on Dec 18, 2020 11:18:58 GMT 1
Good job, Bonobo...too bad they didn't listen to you sooner. I hope she can get some help. Do the schools have trained people on staff who work with students with disorders like dyslexia, or do they have to go outside of the school for help? In the U.S. schools are required to provide an appropriate curriculum for them, or the school system has to pay for outside help, plus the cost of transportation there and back as necessary....all of which is very expensive and depletes special education funds within the school system! My dyslexia hunting results are not always so successful. Most parents follow my advice and take the kid for consultation. A minority still deny. A few weeks a mother told me that the specialist stated her daughter didn`t have dyslexia. I said nothing, just nodded because commenting on an obvious case seemed useless. Her husband, a popular lawyer, once admitted to having it in our private conversation. Now the mother wants to hide the fact. Let it be so. The problem is when she asks me about their daughter`s progress - when I say she won`t win the English language competition due to "unique problems with accuracy", she looks at me with disbelief. Probably she thinks I don`t put enough effort in the teaching process. |
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Post by jeanne on Dec 24, 2020 1:25:51 GMT 1
My dyslexia hunting results are not always so successful. Most parents follow my advice and take the kid for consultation. A minority still deny. A few weeks a mother told me that the specialist stated her daughter didn`t have dyslexia. I said nothing, just nodded because commenting on an obvious case seemed useless. Her husband, a popular lawyer, once admitted to having it in our private conversation. Now the mother wants to hide the fact. Let it be so. The problem is when she asks me about their daughter`s progress - when I say she won`t win the English language competition due to "unique problems with accuracy", she looks at me with disbelief. Probably she thinks I don`t put enough effort in the teaching process. It's always easy and convenient for parents to just blame the teacher. Unfortunately, many cannot bring themselves to admit that their child may have learning disabilities... Don't worry, Bonobo, I'm sure there are many, many others who can vouch for your teaching talents!  |
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Post by Bonobo on Dec 24, 2020 15:36:58 GMT 1
Unfortunately, many cannot bring themselves to admit that their child may have learning disabilities... Don't worry, Bonobo, I'm sure there are many, many others who can vouch for your teaching talents! Well, I can`t blame them. It is the second case of denial, the first one we discussed about two,three years ago, but eventually that mother, a teacher herself, realised the weight of the problem and agreed for an examination. This new denial mother also thinks she is protecting her daughter from being "stigmatised" with such a disability. I even suspect that being really affluent, they might bribe the logopedist to issue a neutral statement and under the counter they asked him/her for advice how to deal with the issue. Anything is possible. I am preparing the daughter to the second stage of an important English competition but I see it is hopeless - at the age of 15, she isn`t able to take in the material that 19 year olds have at an advanced level of the high school leaving exam. |
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Post by jeanne on Dec 24, 2020 19:00:12 GMT 1
I am preparing the daughter to the second stage of an important English competition but I see it is hopeless - at the age of 15, she isn`t able to take in the material that 19 year olds have at an advanced level of the high school leaving exam. Why is she taking an exam with that advanced level if she is not mastering the material? What is the "important English competition?" |
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Post by Bonobo on Dec 25, 2020 0:29:08 GMT 1
It is the Olympic competition for elementary school students. 3 stages. If they get to the last stage, they are finalists and get points which matter when students wish to enroll at an elite high school. The first 20 students who are in the last stage become aces and get even more points.
The first stage relies mostly on the curriculum of the elementary school, but the next two ones involve high school advanced level. Plus literature.
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